---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
CAPTAIN, WE HAVE DISCOVERED SOME SORT OF ALIEN SHRINE HERE ON THE SURFACE.
THE BUILDING IS IMMENSELY OLD -- AT LEAST 2000 YEARS.
INSCRIBED AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE CYLINDRICAL SHRINE ARE INNUMERABLE HIEROGLYPHS WHICH
DOCUMENT THE HISTORY OF EACH OF THE NINETEEN THRADDASH CULTURES.
FROM WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, WE HAVE LEARNED THAT THE THRADDASH HAVE RISEN TO STAR-FARING TECHNOLOGY
AT LEAST THREE SEPARATE TIMES,
ONLY TO NUKE THEMSELVES BACK INTO THE STONE AGE AGAIN AND AGAIN.
THE REAL SURPRISE, CAPTAIN WAS WHAT WE FOUND INSIDE THE SHRINE!
WE KNEW THE THRADDASH KEPT SOMETHING DOWN HERE,
BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS UNTIL WE WENT INSIDE THE SHRINE.
IN THE EXACT MIDDLE OF THE STRUCTURE WAS A TALL DAIS OF WHITE STONE.
SET ATOP THIS DAIS WAS AN IMMENSE AQUA GEMSTONE,
SOMEHOW SHAPED INTO A FLAT TWISTED RIBBON, LIKE A DNA HELIX.
THE AQUA HELIX EMITTED INCREDIBLE LIGHT PULSES,
ILLUMINATING THE CAVERNOUS SHRINE LIKE A GIANT STROBE LIGHT,
AT LEAST IT DID... UNTIL PRIVATE HENDRYX DECIDED TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
IF HE GRABBED THE ARTIFACT.
THE HELIX IMMEDIATELY CEASED GLOWING, AND HAS REMAINED QUIESCENT EVER SINCE.
WE WILL BRING THE AQUA HELIX BACK ABOARD THE SHIP FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
WE HAVE FOUND AN IMMENSELY POWERFUL HYPERWAVE TRANSMITTER HERE ON THE SURFACE OF THIS MOON.
IT IS SENDING A STRONG HYPERWAVE SIGNAL OUTWARD, INTO THE UNEXPLORED, ANTI-SPINWARD REGION OF THE GALAXY.
SINCE THIS EQUIPMENT IS EXTREMELY VALUABLE, AND WE HAVE FOUND NO SIGN OF ANY INTELLIGENT LIFE ON THIS MOON,
WE HAVE DECIDED TO DISASSEMBLE THE TRANSMITTER AND BRING IT BACK TO THE SHIP.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
CAPTAIN! WE HAVE FOUND AN UNUSUAL GLOWING ROCK-THING HERE ON THE SURFACE.
WHEN WE FIRST NOTICED IT, WE THOUGHT IT WAS A NATURALLY FLUORESCING, IGNEOUS DIKE,
BUT UPON CLOSER OBSERVATION WE CAN ONLY CONCLUDE THAT THIS OBJECT IS ARTIFICIAL IN ORIGIN -- TAALO DESIGN!
THOSE GUYS SURE BUILT TO LAST. SIMPLE RADIOMETRICS SHOW AN AGE IN EXCESS OF 20,000 YEARS.
REGARDLESS OF HOW OLD IT IS, IT CONTINUES TO RADIATE ENERGY ALL UP AND DOWN THE EMR SPECTRUM,
WITH A CONCENTRATION OF EMISSIONS IN THE RED/INFRARED RANGE.
EVEN THOUGH IT WEIGHS A TON, WE WILL DEFINITELY LUG THIS PUPPY UP TO THE SHIP.
ONE LAST COMMENT BEFORE I SIGN-OFF -- ENSIGNS HODGKINS AND WITHERSPOON HAVE BOTH REPORTED
EXTREME HEADACHES AND MENTAL DISARRAY WHENEVER THEY APPROACH THE TAALO DEVICE.
NONE OF THE REST OF US HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, SO EITHER THE ENSIGNS ARE JUST BEING BABIES
OR THE TAALO DEVICE PRODUCES SOME KIND OF SHIELD THAT AFFECTS ONLY CERTAIN PEOPLE'S MINDS.
MAYBE THE SCIENTISTS BACK AT THE STARBASE WILL TELL US MORE.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
S-SIR-R WE-E AR-RE EX-PER-I-EN-CING MAJ-OR-R T-TECTON-N-IC SH-SH-OCKS HE-RE ON-N THE-E SUR-R-FACE...
WAIT A MINUTE... THEY SEEM TO HAVE PASSED... WHEW. THAT WAS AWFUL!
CAPTAIN, WHEN WE WEREN'T BOUNCING OFF THE CEILING OR BEING BASHED AGAINST THE LANDER WALLS,
WE WERE LOOKING FOR WHATEVER IT WAS THAT THE MYCON WERE HIDING DOWN HERE.
WE THINK WE'VE FOUND IT! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CALL IT... IT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN
A SPIDER AND AN ANTENNA, BUT JEEVO, THE ENGINEER WE BROUGHT ALONG, SAYS THE DEVICE HAS THE CAPACITY
TO RADIATE INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY IN THE FORM OF VISIBLE LIGHT. WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO EXPERIMENT
WITH THE ARTIFACT, AND WILL BRING IT ABOARD RIGHT AFTER WE EXPLORE THE IMMEDIATE VICIN-ITY-TY...
UH-OH CAP-P-TAIN! LOOK-K-S LIK-KE THE-E SHOCK-KS ARE-E ST-START-T-ING UP-P AG-GAIN!
WE-E CAN'T-T TAK-KE M-MUCH M-MO-RE OF TH-TH-IS... R-RET-URN-NING T-TO SHIP-P!
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
WE HAVE FOUND SOME KIND OF VAULT, BUILT INTO THE BEDROCK OF THIS PLANET.
THE VAULT'S METAL ALLOY IS IMPERVIOUS TO OUR WEAPONS, AND APPEARS TO BE SIMILAR TO THE UR-QUAN
`ETERNA-TECH' METAL USED TO REINFORCE THEIR DREADNOUGHT SUPER-STRUCTURES.
THERE IS SOME KIND OF COMPUTER ENTRY SYSTEM, BUT WE CANNOT FATHOM ITS DESIGN.
FRUSTRATED AND DISAPPOINTED, WE ARE RETURNING TO THE FLAGSHIP.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
WE HAVE OPENED THE SUBTERRANEAN VAULT WHICH CONTAINED THE SYREEN SPACE PATROL PENETRATOR STARSHIPS.
THE SYREEN CAPTAINS HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND OF THEIR VESSELS AND INSTRUCTED US
TO RENDEZVOUS WITH THEM BACK AT BETELGEUSE.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
THE SYREEN SHIP VAULT IS EMPTY AND CONTAINS NOTHING OF VALUE.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
CAPTAIN, WE HAVE LOCATED THE WRECK OF AN UR-QUAN DREADNOUGHT HERE ON THE PLANET'S SURFACE.
THE FACT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING BUT A HOLE IN THE GROUND INDICATES THAT THE VEHICLE MUST
HAVE HAD SOME ENGINE POWER LEFT TO SOFTEN ITS CRASH.
MOST OF THE DREADNOUGHT IS JUST SO MUCH ALIEN JUNK. WE HAVE MADE HOLOS OF EVERYTHING,
BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL BE MUCH USE TO ANYONE BUT THOSE EGGHEAD XENO-SOCIOLOGISTS BACK
AT THE BASE. WE HAVE FOUND ONE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WHICH IS RELATIVELY INTACT.
IT IS A HUGE HYPERSPACE WARP POD -- THE STARBOARD UNIT, I THINK. WE WILL BRING IT ABOARD.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
WE HAVE FOUND NOTHING NEW OF INTEREST IN THE WRECK OF THE UR-QUAN DREADNOUGHT.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
WE FOUND A HUGE PRECURSOR DEVICE ON THE PLANET'S SURFACE -- A GIANT BLACK CYLINDER SET WITHIN
A SIMPLE DEFENSIVE GRID. WE HAVE ALREADY NEUTRALIZED THE GRID...
ACTUALLY JENKINS JUST DROVE THROUGH IT BY ACCIDENT, BUT THAT SEEMED TO WORK.
THE ARTIFACT IS COVERED WITH PRECURSOR SCRIPT AND ALTHOUGH WE CAN'T TRANSLATE MUCH OF THE
WRITING, IT IS PRETTY CLEAR THAT THE SCRIPT IS A WARNING, REPEATED AGAIN AND AGAIN.
THE ENERGY OUTPUT OF THIS ARTIFACT IS SCARY -- IT RIVALS ALL OUR SHIP'S ENGINES AT REDLINE!
IF I MAY BE SO BOLD, CAPTAIN, I WOULD ADVISE THAT WE NOT EXPERIMENT WITH THIS DEVICE UNTIL WE
ARE BACK AT THE STARBASE. WE SHALL NOW RETURN TO THE SHIP, WITH THE BLACK CYLINDER DEVICE
CAREFULLY STOWED IN THE CARGO AREA.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
WE HAVE FINALLY TRAPPED THE HIDEOUS BEAST WHICH HAS BEEN SO HARD TO CAPTURE THESE PAST FEW
DAYS. I SWEAR, WE EMPTIED OUR STUN BATTERIES INTO THAT THING OVER A DOZEN TIMES BEFORE IT
EVEN SLOWED DOWN. A FEW MORE SHOTS TO ITS BARBED HEAD, AND IT WENT DOWN, BUT WE HAD ONLY A
FEW SECONDS TO GET IT INTO THE MAGNETIC RESTRAINOR BEFORE IT STARTED THRASHING AROUND AGAIN.
EVEN AS I MAKE THIS REPORT, THAT DAMN MONSTER IS SHRIEKING LIKE A STEAM ENGINE AND TRYING TO
TEAR ITS WAY FREE. I HOPE WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING, BRINGING THAT THING ABOARD. IF IT GETS
FREE INSIDE THE SHIP, CAPTAIN, WELL... I JUST DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT. RETURNING TO SHIP.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
NEAR AN UNUSUAL VOLCANIC FUMAROLE, WE HAVE FOUND A FRAGMENT OF SOME KIND OF BIOLOGICAL
ENCASEMENT OR SHELL WHICH IS MADE OF AN INCREDIBLY TOUGH, HEAT-RESISTANT MAT OF FUNGAL FIBERS.
WE CAN FIND NO SIGN OF ANY LIFEFORM WHICH MAY HAVE `HATCHED' FROM THIS EGG SHELL, BUT WE WILL
BRING BACK A SAMPLE OF THE MATERIAL TO THE FLAGSHIP FOR FURTHER STUDY.
---- END OF REPORT ----

!!!! MAYDAY FROM SURFACE !!!!
WE HAVE COME UNDER FIRE FROM AN ALIEN VESSEL WE FOUND HIDING ON THE SURFACE OF PLUTO!
WE HAVE RETURNED FIRE, BUT OUR STUNNER CAN'T PENETRATE THE SHIP'S HULL ARMOR.
CAPTAIN! THEY KILLED KOWALSKI, FRITZ, CHIN, O'DONNELL, LUIGI AND ALL THREE OF THE LIEBERMANN TRIPLETS!
WE ARE INITIATING EMERGENCY LAUNCH PROCEDURES.
---- END OF TRANSMISSION ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
THESE RUINS SEEM TO BE THE REMNANTS OF A CIVILIZATION WHICH CALLED ITSELF THE `BURVIXESE'.
ALL THEIR CITIES HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO RADIOACTIVE SLAG BY SOME FORM OF ENERGY WEAPON SIMILAR
BUT NOT IDENTICAL TO THE UR-QUAN'S FUSION BLAST. FROM EVIDENCE WE HAVE GATHERED HERE, WE CAN
CONCLUDE THAT THIS ENTIRE CIVILIZATION WAS DESTROYED FROM ORBIT SOMETIME IN THE LAST 8-12
EARTH YEARS. THERE ARE NO SURVIVORS.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
XENO-HISTORIAN KILGORE HERE, SIR. WE HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THESE RUINS ARE THE REMNANTS OF THE
ANDROSYNTH CULTURE. FROM THE MASS DESTRUCTION WE HAVE WITNESSED, WE CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT THERE
WAS SOME KIND OF HUGE LAND WAR HERE WITHIN THE PAST FIVE YEARS; HOWEVER, THERE IS NO, REPEAT,
NO SIGNS OF ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT OR INVASION FROM SPACE... JUST A WHOLE MESS OF BUILDINGS SHOT
TO PIECES. PROBABLY THE WEIRDEST THING WE HAVE SEEN, OR NOT SEEN, ARE CORPSES... THERE AREN'T
ANY! IT'S AS THOUGH SOMETHING APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE, BLASTED EVERYTHING WITH NUCLEAR BAZOOKAS,
THEN GRABBED ALL THE ANDROSYNTH AND DISAPPEARED.

AN ADDITIONAL REPORT SIR, THIS TIME FROM SCIENCE OFFICER BUKOWSKI -- WE HAVE LOCATED AN
ANDROSYNTH SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STATION AND I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE SOME SENSE OUT OF WHAT
IS LEFT OF THEIR CENTRAL COMPUTER. AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO, THE ANDROSYNTH
BEGAN EXPERIMENTING WITH SOMETHING THEY CALLED DIMENSIONAL FATIGUE PHENOMENA. I CAN'T FIGURE
OUT WHAT THIS DIMENSIONAL FATIGUE (OR DF AS THEY CALL IT) IS, BUT MAYBE IF WE EXPLORED ANOTHER
CITY, I WOULD BE ABLE TO FIND MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SUBJECT.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
BUKOWSKI AGAIN, SIR. WE HAVE FOUND ANOTHER RESEARCH INSTITUTE. WELL, THE RUINS OF ONE, ANYWAY.
THE COMPUTER HERE'S IN BETTER SHAPE, ALLOWING ME TO LEARN A BIT MORE ABOUT THE ANDROSYNTH'S
INVESTIGATION INTO DF, DIMENSIONAL FATIGUE.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THEIR STUDIES ACTUALLY BEGAN OVER TEN YEARS AGO, AFTER ONE OF THEIR
BLAZER VESSELS DISCOVERED SOME PRECURSOR ARTIFACTS IN ALPHA LALANDE. AS FAR AS THEIR
SCIENTISTS HERE COULD TELL, THE DEVICES GENERATED DF WAVES WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE USER TO SEE
INTO OTHER... WELL, OTHER DIMENSIONS -- REALMS OF EXISTENCE WHICH SHARE POSITION WITH OUR OWN
UNIVERSE, BUT HAVE A DIFFERENT... GEE, WHAT SHOULD I CALL IT... REALITY PHASE. ANYWAY, THE
ANDROSYNTH HAD HOPED THAT THE DIMENSIONAL FATIGUE TECHNOLOGY CONTAINED IN THE DEVICES WOULD
PERMIT THEM TO CREATE NEW, FASTER FORMS OF HYPERDRIVE AND HYPERWAVE. INSTEAD, WHEN THEY BEGAN
THEIR EXPERIMENTS, THEY MADE CONTACT WITH SOME KIND OF LIFEFORM ON `THE OTHER SIDE', A CREATURE
FROM AN ALIEN DIMENSION.

AGAIN, THE RECORD IS FRAGMENTARY HERE. I SEE REQUESTS TO THE CENTRAL COMPUTER FOR INFORMATION
-- DATA ON `REALITY ABERRATIONS', THE `MOSQUITO MANGE' AND, WELL... GHOSTS, POLTERGEISTS, AND
OTHER MALEVOLENT, SUPERNATURAL CREATURES. THE REQUESTS GROW MORE URGENT, ALMOST FRANTIC, AND
THEN... THE RECORD ENDS.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
CAPTAIN, THIS IS ENSIGN HAWTHORNE STANDING IN FOR BUKOWSKI. SIR, BUKOWSKI HAS FOUND SOMETHING,
BUT... WELL... IN THE PROCESS HE HAS GONE KIND OF NUTS.
WHEN WE FIRST GOT TO THIS DEMOLISHED CITY, BUKOWSKI WENT WILD BECAUSE THE SCIENCE CENTER WAS
PRETTY MUCH INTACT. HE LOCKED HIMSELF IN THEIR COMPUTER CONTROL CABIN AND SPENT ABOUT TEN
HOURS ALONE IN THERE. WE COULD HEAR HIM MUMBLING TO HIMSELF, THEN HIS SPEECH GOT LOUDER UNTIL
HE WAS ALMOST SHOUTING, AND SIR, HE WAS SCARED, DAMN SCARED.
WE FINALLY DECIDED THAT WE'D BETTER CHECK UP ON HIM, BUT BUKOWSKI, WOULDN'T LET US INTO THE
ROOM. HE SAID THAT NO ONE COULD EVER KNOW WHAT HE HAD LEARNED -- THAT JUST KNOWING WAS ENOUGH
TO ALERT `THEM'. HE KEPT TALKING ABOUT `THEM' -- CRAZY STUFF, SIR, ABOUT HOW `THEY' COULD SEE
HIM NOW, AND `THEY' WERE MOVING TOWARD HIM. THEN BUKOWSKI STARTED THRASHING AROUND THE ROOM,
SCREAMING THAT HE HAD TO DESTROY EVERYTHING BEFORE `THEY' SAW US TOO. HE DID A LOT OF DAMAGE
TO THE ANDROSYNTH'S COMPUTER BEFORE WE STOPPED HIM, AND I GUESS HE MUST HAVE HURT HIMSELF IN
THE PROCESS. HE'S CUT UP PRETTY BADLY. YOU KNOW, IT'S STRANGE, HE MUST HAVE HURT HIMSELF
WORSE THAN I THOUGHT. NOW, WHEN I LOOK AT HIM, IT SEEMS LIKE HE HAS EVEN MORE CUTS THAN JUST
A FEW MINUTES AGO, AND BOY, IS HE SCREAMING!

BASED ON THE DAMAGE BUKOWSKI WREAKED ON THE CENTRAL COMPUTER, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE WILL
FIND ANYTHING MORE DOWN HERE. I THINK WE HAVE LEARNED ALL THAT WE CAN FROM EXPLORING THESE
RUINS, AND FRANKLY SIR, WITH ALL OF BUKOWSKI'S RANTING, I'M GETTING A BIT NERVOUS MYSELF.
CALL US BACK TO THE SHIP SOON... PLEASE.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
EVERYTHING WE HAVE FOUND IN THESE RUINS OF THIS ONCE-THRIVING DRUUGE METROPOLIS HAVE CONVINCED
US THAT THEY HAVE BEEN UTTERLY DESTROYED BY PLANETARY BOMBARDMENT ATTACKS FROM THE KOHR-AH.
THE DEVASTATION IS COMPLETE... WELL, ALMOST COMPLETE. BASED ON AN ANOMALOUS ENERGY READING,
WE LOCATED A HARDENED CHAMBER DEEP UNDER THE SURFACE -- SOME KIND OF VAULT. INSIDE THE CHAMBER
WE FOUND A SMALL GLOWING-RED SPHERE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A CLENCHED FIST. SINCE THE DRUUGE PLACED
THE ARTIFACT IN THE PROTECTIVE VAULT, WE MUST ASSUME THAT IT HAS VALUE OF SOME KIND. THEREFORE,
WE ARE BRINGING THE ROSY SPHERE UP TO THE SHIP.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
THE KOHR-AH HAVE DONE A THOROUGH JOB, CAPTAIN. THERE APPEARS TO BE NOTHING MORE OF VALUE HERE.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
THESE RUINS BEAR SAD EVIDENCE TO THE DEMISE OF THE PKUNK PEOPLES. CAPTAIN, IF YOU HAD ANY HOPE
THAT THERE WOULD BE SURVIVORS... I'M SORRY -- NO ONE COULD HAVE WITHSTOOD THE RAIN OF
DEVASTATION THAT MUST HAVE FALLEN HERE NOT LONG AGO. IT WAS THE WORK OF THE KOHR-AH, I'D BET ON IT!
ALTHOUGH WE HAVE FOUND NO SURVIVORS, WE DID DISCOVER AN INTERESTING ARTIFACT. IT IS A CLEAR,
CRYSTALLINE OBJECT, SHAPED SOMEWHAT LIKE A SPINDLE. SINCE THERE IS NOTHING MORE FOR US TO
LEARN HERE, WE ARE RETURNING TO THE FLAGSHIP WITH THE SPINDLE OBJECT.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
CAPTAIN, WE HAVE SEARCHED THE PKUNK RUINS AND FOUND NOTHING MORE OF NOTE.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING ON THIS PLANET HAS BEEN DESTROYED, CAPTAIN.
---- END OF REPORT ----

---- REPORT FROM SURFACE ----
CAPTAIN... THIS IS LIEUTENANT ROBINSON, SIR. WE HAVE LOCATED AN ALIEN ARTIFACT DOWN HERE.
PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE HAVE FOUND SOMETHING WHICH I THINK MAY EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE SPATHI... AND I DON'T THINK YOU ARE GOING TO LIKE IT.
WE WERE INVESTIGATING A LARGE BLUE MACHINE WHEN OFFICER TALBOT DISCOVERED A PIECE OF PAPER
GLUED TO THE SIDE OF THE DEVICE. SIR... IT'S A NOTE FROM THE SPATHI HIGH COUNCIL. I'LL READ
IT TO YOU...

DEAR HUNAMS,
HOW ARE YOU? WE ARE FINE. HOWEVER CAN WE THANK YOU FOR LETTING US STUDY YOUR PLANET EARTH'S
SLAVE SHIELD? ADMITTEDLY, IT TOOK US SOME TIME TO REPLICATE THE TECHNOLOGY OURSELVES, BUT WE
ARE SIMPLY DELIGHTED WITH THE RESULTS! YESSIREE, WE SURE LOVE THE IDEA OF PUTTING AN
IMPENETRABLE SHIELD AROUND OUR PLANET! NOW ALL THOSE EVIL MONSTERS THAT WERE JUST ABOUT TO
ATTACK WON'T BE ABLE TO EAT US. THANKS!
I GUESS THIS MEANS WE WON'T BE ABLE TO SEND YOU ANY MORE STARSHIP CAPTAINS... SORRY!
WELL, THEY WANT TO TURN ON THE SHIELD ABOUT NOW, SO WE'VE GOT TO GET GOING. I'M SURE WE'LL
NEVER EVER TALK WITH YOU AGAIN, SO... BYE!

THANKS AGAIN!

YOUR FRIENDS,

THE SPATHI RULING COUNCIL

P.S. THIS MACHINE IS THE SUPER-POWERFUL HYPERWAVE `CASTER THAT THE UMGAH USED TO TRICK US
INTO BELIEVING THAT THE `GRAND MASTER PLANET EATERS' WERE COMING TO DESTROY OUR PLANET. WE
THOUGHT THAT MAYBE YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE IT.
---- END OF TRANSMISSION ----

---- REPORT FROM ORBIT ----
WE HAVE EXPLORED THE INTERIOR OF THE STARBASE AND FOUND IT ABANDONED.
COMPUTER RECORDS SHOW THAT THE UR-QUAN PUT THIS STARBASE IN ORBIT AROUND THE CHENJESU AND MMRNMHRM
AFTER THEY WERE DEFEATED BY THE HIERARCHY.
FROM WHAT WE CAN DETERMINE, THE CHENJESU AND MMRNMHRM WHO WERE ASSIGNED TO THIS BASE
SET UP MINDLESS ROBOTS TO RUN THE STATION, AND THEN SOMEHOW RETURNED TO THE SURFACE OF THEIR PLANET,
PENETRATING THE SLAVE SHIELD!

FURTHER ANALYSIS OF THE STARBASE'S DATABANKS SHOW THAT THE CHENJESU AND MMRNMHRM WERE EXPLORING
SYNTHESIS SCHEMES TO CREATE A HYBRID RACE, HALF MMRNMHRM AND HALF CHENJESU.

THE ROBOTS WHO CONTROL THIS STARBASE ARE ARMED AND WILL NOT PERMIT US TO SCAVENGE MATERIALS,
SO WE ARE RETURNING TO THE SHIP.
---- END OF TRANSMISSION ----